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- Title
PREDICTING ATTITUDES TOWARD SEEKING PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP AMONG ALASKA NATIVES.
- Authors
Freitas-Murrell, Brittany; Swift, Joshua K.
- Abstract
This study sought to examine the role of current/previous treatment experience, stigma (social and self), and cultural identification (Caucasian and Alaska Native [AN]) in predicting attitudes toward psychological help seeking for ANs. Results indicated that these variables together explained roughly 56% of variance in attitudes. In particular, while self-stigma and identification with the Caucasian culture predicted a unique amount of variance in helpseeking attitudes, treatment use and identification with AN culture did not. The results of this study indicate that efforts to address the experience of self-stigma may prove most useful to improving help-seeking attitudes in ANs.
- Subjects
COUNSELING; HELP-seeking behavior; CULTURAL identity; ALASKA Natives; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CAUCASIAN race
- Publication
American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 3, p21
- ISSN
0893-5394
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5820/aian.2203.2015.21